Transitional-law footnotes removed from Equal Wages Guidelines, 1986

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Two transitional provisions that had been appended to the Equal Wages Guidelines, 1986 have been removed from the consolidated text. These provisions — which explained how the Public Service Labour Relations Board and the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal were to handle equal-pay complaints during a specific transition period — are no longer reproduced in the document. The main body of the Guidelines, including the rules on equal wages and the factors that can justify pay differences, is unchanged. Employers subject to federal equal-pay obligations and their HR or legal teams should note that the substantive rules remain in force; only the historical transitional footnotes have been stripped out.

Who this affects: federally regulated employers · human resources professionals · employment law practitioners · pay equity compliance teams